Unfortunately, when I play the original Devil may cry using PCSX2, I get 2 problems: the first is that the game slows down at boss fights and at some instances of minion fights; the second my life bar doesn't increase with any of the blue orbs I acquire. (blue orbs are hp upgrades). Because of these issues, I have shamefully resorted to cheating via cheat engine. The problem is I don't quite know how. Does anyone know how to hack the hp bar and freeze it? I tried doing an "unknown initial value-decrease value-4byte" scan, but this didn't work. Maybe health is stored as a double or a floating point? Or maybe it's more complex than that?

Anyhow an actual fix would be pointless until I clean all the dust from my laptop. Until then just advice on how to freeze and unfreeze my hp bar will be good enough.